Arts-based activities can make a real difference in dementia care, giving people who may have lost the skills of ordinary conversation vital opportunities to express themselves in a different way, writes Richard Coaten Author/s: Richard Coaten For the full article please see the PDF download linked to the right. The full JDC archive is available…...
Bryony Smith reports on a small study which showed that facilitating engagement in purposeful occupation can help to minimise disturbing behaviours for individuals with dementia on general hospital wards. Author/s: Bryony Smith For the full article please see the PDF download linked to the right. The full JDC archive is available if you subscribe....
Barnsley: Claire Craig describes how putting herself in the shoes – or the bed – of someone with dementia led to some dramatic changes on a continuing care ward, while John Killick relates his encounter with Claire’s work on the ward Author/s: Claire Craig, John Killick For the full article please see the PDF download…...
Linda Rose and Stephanie Schlingensiepen describe the project Music for Life, the way action research has illuminated and changed its work, and how this may contribute to growing knowledge on running arts projects in dementia care. Author/s: Linda Rose, Stephanie Schlingensiepen For the full article please see the PDF download linked to the right. The…...
Sue Saunders and Claire McLoughlin describe how a creative writing project helped one woman to feel that her thoughts and feelings were heard and understood, and helped staff to see her more fully as a person. Author/s: Sue Saunders, Claire McLoughlin For the full article please see the PDF download linked to the right. The…...
Maureen Sansom, with Jan Gordon, Jill Forsyth and Maureen Anton, describes a series of imaginative projects at a home in Peeblesshire, which have drawn on talent in the local community and brough people together in stimulating new ways. Author/s: Maureen Sansom For the full article please see the PDF download linked to the right. The…...
Dementia care is, or should be, as much about being as doing – a relationship of mutual communication and life-enhancement. Angela Cotter offers a spiritual perspective on the deeper meeting points of care Author/s: Angela Cotter For the full article please see the PDF download linked to the right. The full JDC archive is available…...
Barbara Jagger reflects in verse on the problem of fitting the details of people’s lives into categories. Author/s: Barbara Jagger For the full article please see the PDF download linked to the right. The full JDC archive is available if you subscribe....
Kate Allan and John Killick discuss issues arising from the growing range of exciting and creative work now being undertaken using the arts in dementia care. Author/s: Kate Allan, John Killick For the full article please see the PDF download linked to the right. The full JDC archive is available if you subscribe....
Jill Manthorpe reviews a variety of late 20th century writing about dementia – but from the world of the imagination and not evidence-based medical or social science. Author/s: Jill Manthorpe For the full article please see the PDF download linked to the right. The full JDC archive is available if you subscribe....